Collection - songs for reflection, analysis

You always gotta be prepared, but you never know for what.

I am going to put up some very different story songs. What I
want students to do with them is:

• listen to them all and then pick one as a focus.
• reflect on
  • the story
  • the music
  • the characters
  • the point of view
  • the "message"
• decide what sort of analytic approach is best suited to the song
  • historical
  • literary
  • anthropological
  • psychological (freudian, Jungian, etc,)
  • musicological
  • Marxian
  • Feminist
  • Sociological
  • another?
• Note features of the song you would use to focus the analysis you decided as best suited to the song

Song #1:James McMurtry and the Heartless Bastards - Choctaw Bingo





Song #2 Kurt Weil "Begger's Opera" Nina Simone - Pirate Jenny



Song #3 Grateful Dead - Robert Hunter - My Brother Esau



Song # 4 June Tabor - Bonny May (Child Ballad #10)